The vSAN ReadyNode Sizer is accessible online to Partners via their Partner Central ID's and/or Customers via their existing My VMware ID's.  Here we are using a test My VMware Customer ID:

1. Click Username and enter customsource50@stratus.com
2. Click Password and enter sizer123
3. Click Sign In

The Sizer allows you to model All Flash or Hybrid vSAN Configurations as well as indicate your Deployment Scale.

1. Leave the default All Flash and Data Center Scale settings then Click Next

The Sizer allows you to enter your Workload Profile(s) - in our example we will only enter a single Profile:

1. Click the drop-down and select General Purpose

We will now enter the values that were collected via Live Optics and reviewed previously:

1. Click and enter Total Count of VMs:  400

If you do not know the Storage Requirements per VM, you can enter an aggregate total:

1. Click Don't Know How Much Storage Required Per VM?
2. Click and enter Total Storage(TB):  200
3. Click Submit
4. Click to Scroll Down

Now we will enter enter additional parameters that were also captured via Live Optics:

1. Click and enter vCPU / Core: 9
2. Ciick and enter vCPU / VM: 4
3. Click and enter vRAM / VM (GB): 12
4. Click and enter IOPs / VM: 35
5. Click to Scroll Down

We will leave the Default Host failures to tolerate (1), Fault Tolerance Method (RAID-5) and Dedup (2).  Let's submit our IO Profile:

1. Click and enter IO Size ( KB ): 16 KB
2. (IO Access Pattern and IO Ratio will utilize Default Values)
3. Click to Scroll Down
4. Click Recommendation

Note that a vSAN Server Pack is returned, recommending an 8 Server vSAN Build.

1. Click How to Interpret Sizing ?
2. Review the Guidance and Click the X to close this window
3. Click Actions and note that there are options to Show the User Input values that were used, Edit User Inputs, Size for 2-site and Download Report.  
4. Click to Scroll Down

Note the Server Configuration parameters that are returned including which ReadyNode Profile would be a good match (AF-4 aka 'All Flash 4') as well as Memory per Node, Cores per Node, Raw Capacity per Node, Minimum number of Disk Groups per Node, etc.

1. Click to Scroll Down
2. Note the Raw Cache per Node as well as Performance and Endurance Class suggested for Cache Drives
3. Click to Scroll Down
4. Click Assumptions
5. Click to Scroll Down and review the Assumptions indicated

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